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Hi, my name is Pandu and I love all things yummy :). Although I'm a total foodie, I like my food simple and easy and homemade as much as I can. I also have a big sweet tooth and I mostly bake than cook.

Like this:

I learned to make these cupcakes at the Namibia Food and Wine Festival 2014, see my previous post.

Ingredients

Dark chocolate 125 grams

Blue cheese 100g(save some for the frosting)

½ cup butter

2 whole eggs

2 egg yolks

2 cups self-raising flour

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup milk

½ teaspoon vanilla

½ teaspoon baking soda

Frosting

Icing sugar

Fresh cream

Blue cheese

Cocoa powder

Directions

Preheat the oven and 180°C.

Melt the chocolate and butter over a double boiler and set aside to cool.

In a bowl, mix flour and baking soda.

In a separate mixing bowl, add the whole eggs, egg yolks and vanilla and whisk.

Add in the sugar and whisk until smooth and fluffy.

Add in the melted chocolate and mix.

Add in the flour mixture and milk in two increments and mix.

Scoop the batter halfway into a muffin tin and place a blue cheese chunk in the middle of each cupcake, press it down and cover with some batter. Make the blue cheese pieces as large or as small as you like depending on how much you like blue cheese (I made these for my best friend’s birthday and she really love blue cheese so the bigger the better for her).

Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes and let cool for a while, and then remove from the pan and let cool completely on a wire rack.

While the cupcakes cool, prepare the frosting.

Mix the cocoa powder with 1-2 tablespoon of fresh cream to form a paste.

Like this:

Instead of making birthday cakes, I’ve been making birthday cupcakes lately. They are so much fun especially for kiddies birthday parties and I’m a big kid and I absolutely love kiddies birthday parties.

Ingredients

1½ cup self raising flour

½ cup sugar

½ cup butter, at room temperature

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

½ cup milk

Frosting

½ icing sugar

2 table spoon of milk

m&m’s

rainbow sprinkles

Directions

With the mixer on low, mix the butter and sugar for about 1 minute, add in the eggs one at a time and vanilla essence and mix well.

Add in half the flour and half the milk and mix, and add in the remaining flour and milk and then mix again.

With an ice-cream scoop, fill the cupcake pan evenly with the batter.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Cool completely on a wire rack

For the frosting: Mix the icing sugar and milk and then spread it on top of the cupcakes.